The European satellite Salsa is due to reenter our atmosphere at 7.48pm UK time, where it will burn up, leaving a fiery trail and giving rare clues about how we can reduce space debris in future.

Deputies were called to the intersection of South Bend Avenue and Pintail Street near the Minneopa Golf Course just after 6:30 pm Thursday.

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday morning (May 14), sending charged particles and plasma hurtling toward Earth. And experts warn, this is just the ...

The ISS has been orbiting the Earth since construction on it began in 1998. It has hosted more than 250 visitors from 20 countries since its first crew arrived in November 2000. "The space station ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. ... with very few — if any — parts surviving the fiery journey.

NEOWISE contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects. Menu. Space. 15 Years Later, Earth’s Most Advanced Planetary Defense System Ends In A Fiery Reentry.

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Earth’s fiery ‘Door to Hell’ is starting to close. The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan has been burning since 1971. By Andrew Paul. Published Jun 9, 2025 2:35 PM EDT.

The long-dead probe’s remains have subsequently circled the planet for over 53 years—but according to a Dutch satellite tracker, its fiery (and uncontrolled) demise is finally on the horizon.

After orbiting the earth 34,981 times, the Skylab space station had its power cut and was sent into an uncontrolled tumble into the Earth's atmosphere on 11 July 1979. It was expected to break up ...